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What's in a name?
I have a friend who adopted her son after several years of fostering him. She said that when the official court date drew closer, she...
Apr 7, 2024


Not enough
Every six months or so, depending on what’s going on in my life, I have a Knock-Down. If you’re not familiar with the concept, it’s kind...
Feb 26, 2024


Too broken
I broke the bracelet my husband gave me for Christmas. It survived about 35 days before the slender gold chain got hung on the corner of...
Feb 5, 2024


Text messages
One of the best inventions of the last thirty years has got to be text messaging. Ever since somebody texted “Merry Christmas” to...
Jul 9, 2023


Drawn
Have you ever watched a cartoonist draw the character for which he’s famous? Take Charles Schulz, for instance. If you watch a video of...
Jun 11, 2023


May I pray for you?
As we were driving down a backroad highway a few weeks ago, I saw a man standing in a parking lot, waving and smiling at people who drove...
Apr 10, 2023


Rules
I was talking to a Sunday school teacher about classroom behavior and how to manage the rowdier kids during the hour he has them every...
Mar 6, 2023


You rule
I pass the same Burger King restaurant several times a week, though I’ve never actually eaten there. On my frequent passings, I’ve...
Feb 26, 2023


Pushing the buttons
Before our schedules became too busy for family trips in the summertime, we used to take an annual trip to a high-rise condo at the...
Jan 30, 2023


Kinsman Redeemer
After a couple of months of harvesting grain along with the servants of Boaz, Naomi gets to thinking about her dear daughter-in-law Ruth....
Aug 23, 2022


Deliverance
We got a taxi to the hospital and after what felt like forever—if you’ve spent time in the waiting room with a sick loved one you know...
Feb 14, 2022


Something familiar
I’ve published a few books over the last eight or nine years, and something I’ve noticed when a person has read one of my books is her...
Jan 17, 2022


Artificial reefs
“They don’t know that it isn’t real.” This was the reply from Rodrigo, the man who took our family snorkeling on his little boat, the...
Jan 3, 2022


Say “You-hoo!”
When our girls were little, one of their favorite games to play was hide-and-seek. They would tell me or my husband Brent to hide our...
Dec 22, 2021


Faithfulness
It’s funny to track the differences between my childhood in the 1970’s and 1980’s with the world that my kids live in now. The ways we...
May 23, 2021


Looking for my enemy
I was in Atlanta last weekend with my older son to watch him play a couple of soccer games. Not being a sporty person myself, I have had...
Oct 26, 2020
Fireflies
A friend recently told me about taking a group of Texas teens to Nashville for a mission trip. As they sat outside at an evening...
Jul 22, 2019
Surprise ending
I rarely watch a movie or read a book more than once. There’s a part of me that says, “I already know how this ends, so I’m not really...
Jan 14, 2019
When there are no instructions…
When my twin daughters were 3-years old, I walked in the dining room (though we called it the “yellow room” because, obviously, it was...
Apr 26, 2017
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